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Until a few days ago Apple required developers to pay a $99/year charge to test out OS X Beta software releases, the same has been waived and anybody with an Apple ID can now get the OS X Beta released for free. Apple requires OS X Beta Seed Program users to accept a "Confidentiality Agreement" after which they will receive a Beta Access Utility for their Mac, which enables access to pre-release versions of OS X in the Mac App Store Updates panel. Apple also expects users to Test-drive beta software to provide quality and usability feedback's.

Remote Pi is an application for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Google Android which allows users to utilize their mobile-devices as an wireless keyboard and trackpad for Raspberry Pi. Once installed user can send keystrokes and mouse events to you Raspberry Pi computers over TCP/IP via a wired or wireless network, the utility not only saves money for an additional keyboard-mouse but also keeps a USB port free on the Rapsberry Pi.

Movie piracy just got super-easy with "Popcorn Time", a cross-platform app for Windows, Mac and Linux allowing users to watch latest Hollywood movies streaming to their computers utilizing bit-torrent protocol almost instantly. The utility puts NetFlix to shame, instead of occasional new releases and B-list back catalog provided by Netflix, this ones offers an impressive movie selection catalogue including the latest ones (because they are being offered using illegally shared torrents).

Popcorn Time takes away the technicality limitation of bit-torrent for casual users and offers them a free, simple and cross-platform tool to select latest and other older movies from a carefully curated catalogue and just click on the "Movie Cover" to start watching.

While we have already started hearing whispers about Microsoft Windows 9, the company has officially acknowledged a spring release for Windows 8.1 Update 1 with much demanded features like the ability to boot directly to the Desktop by default and the capability to minimize Metro apps making them behave like regular Desktop app which users are familiar with. Incidentally, a build of Windows 8.1 Update 1 has already got leaked onto various file sharing website with all new major changes including booting straight to the desktop, the menu bar on Metro apps with mouse-and-keyboard friendly behavior for non-touch device users.

SugarSync stopped offering Free usage-tier some time ago, and has now started purging old free accounts. SugarSync is ditching free-users including users like me who promoted SugarSync in there early days and earned free referral bonus (140+GB in my case). This is not all, these guys are so unprofessional that when contacted about the issue few months ago I was told that since I have referral bonus my account will be ok and will not be purged in February, which was not the case. Thankfully I received an automated account-purge notice by email and contacting them again I was told that the earlier support staff was mistaken and all free accounts will get purged.

With account cancellation getting near-by I was left with the task of moving my data to alternative free cloud-storage services, since I am on a slow internet connection downloading and re-uploading was not an option. Thankfully, there are free-to-try services allowing cloud-to-cloud data transfers which comes handy in situations like this where users are left in the lurch.

Kaspersky offers some of the best protection solutions from computer security threats, and to tackle the more advanced and sophisticated new generation of malware the company has released their updated version of Kaspersky Internet Security And Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2014. While the most notable new feature is the greatly enhanced GUI with a brand-new look and faster responsiveness to user actions, under the hood the scanning and detection engine is overhauled to tackle new types of malware's like "Ransomware".

Box.com, the popular cloud storage service provider released their brand new, completely rebuilt App for iPhone and iPad. The new app is not only faster, simpler and more immersive to use but also comes with an offer of 50GB free storage for life to users who download the app in the next 30 days.

The fact that more than 20+ million users, 200,000+ companies including 97% of the Fortune 500 use Box as their cloud storage provider is more then enough to grab this exciting free storage offer before it's too late. Box makes it easy to store, manage and work with all your files and documents wherever you are - on the web, from your desktop and on your iPhone and iPad.

Whispers of an upcoming major update to Microsoft Windows operating-system have already started, according to industry watcher's Microsoft will be discussing the next version of Windows at coming April,2014 BUILD conference. Codenamed 'Threshold', the next version of Windows is expected to be called Microsoft Windows 9 and should be targeted with an speculated release date of April, 2015. While not much is public now, it is expected that a more mature and fixed "Metro 2" design language will be used taking the failure of Windows 8 into consideration.

One of the most useful "smart" feature of your smart-phone is the ability to take pictures, edit them and send them immediately using message, email or WhatsApp. To make the job even more efficient and smarter, we have lots of applications on iTunes Store which allows users to use there devices as portable scanners. One such popular application "Scanner Pro" which also happens to be one amongst the costliest apps on the store allows users to transforms their iPhone and iPad into portable scanners enabling them to scan and catalog receipts, whiteboards, paper notes, or any multipage document with ease is now available for FREE.

The must-have app specially for business professionals allows users to scan documents on-the-go using the built-in camera of the iOS device. The application incorporates special algorithms to fine-tune the picture by removing shadows, enhancing sharpness and perspective correction to make them as readable as possible. The scanned documents can be emailed, printed, uploaded to Dropbox, Google Drive and Evernote, or simply saved on the iPhone/iPad. All scanned document are produced as industry-standard PDF files and the app allows users to manage, add, delete and rearrange pages within the scanned PDF files.

First of all we would like to wish all of our readers a merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year. For Apple iOS 7 users, the famous iOS jailbreak team Evad3rs have a very special and much awaited gift for this holiday season - A genuine and working Apple iOS 7 untethered jailbreak. evasi0n7 is out now for anybody to download for free, the point-and-click ease jailbreak utility supports Apple iOS 7 across all iDevices including iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C and iPad Air running iOS 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.1beta1 or 7.1beta2. Both Windows and Mac OS X binaries are now available for download allowing users to Jailbreak Apple iOS 7 in less then 5 minutes.

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